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dipsydoodle

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Sat Jul-25-09 06:47 AM
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WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111

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Edited on Sat Jul-25-09 06:51 AM by dipsydoodle

Source: BBC News

The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111.

Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.

He was raised in Coombe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset.

The oldest WWI veteran Henry Allingham, who served in the Royal Navy and the RAF, died at the age of 113 a week ago.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8168691.stm

None left now - none at all.

Worth reading his obituary too : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954937.stm

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